Bryant

Certiorari. On the seventh day of June, 1916, there was presented to the board of supervisors of Orange County a petition for the formation of a storm-water district under the provisions of an act entitled, “An act to provide for the formation, organization and government of storm-water districts, for the purpose of protecting the land therein from damage from storm-water and from the waters of any innavigable stream, watercourse, canyon or wash, for the construction of the necessary works of protection by said district, and for the levying of taxes and assessments to pay for the cost of constructing, repairing and maintaining such improvements,” approved March 13, 1909 (Stats. 1909, p. 339); such district to be known as and called “United Storm-water District of Orange County.” Such proceedings were had that thereafter, on the second day of August, 1916, the board of supervisors passed a resolution whereby it purported to form and create said storm-water district. On the eighth day of September the petitioners herein filed their petition for a writ of review, and the writ was issued. Return having been duly made by the respondents, who at the same time filed a demurrer to the…